Good to know. Being an asshole sometimes makes you deserve any treatment you receive. I'll remember that next time there's an outraged article about prison reform.

There are many, many methods of coercion. You sound like people saying "Well why didn't she just leave her abusive husband? He can't have had a gun on her 24/7!"

Thank you! The tone of the story and all the comments is seriously freaking me out.

I agree with you, but that is not the standard placed on oppressive violence, particularly in a situation such as fraternities (or misogyny) where there is a very distinct power balance. Sure, a pledge has the free will to walk away, but that's after weeks and months of conditioning that these are his brothers and his…

If you hate to be that person, then don't be that person. Or don't say "I hate to be that person", because clearly you don't

And yet, similar remarks made "in jest" when we have female victims are shouted down in a raging torrent of hostility.

I used to tell my frat brothers all the time that street harassment was awful and dangerous. That it's not about one incident, but normalizing a harmful culture.

Ooh, I'll check it out!

One or two men die every year from hazing incidents. But yeah, I guess that's kinda funny lol

We're reading.

I used to read Esquire when it wasn't quite as lad-mag as it is today. They had a feature called "10 things you didn't know about women" that was by a different celebrity every month. My favorite was Courtney Cox's "8. Because we don't have a prostate"

No problem. I'm basically just parroting my little brother. He's a philosophy major with an interest in theology and religious studies, and the incredible talent to somehow make it seem interesting!

I'm no expert, but this is how I understand it. It's weird. At the time, an unmarried rabbi would have been highly unusual. Unless Jesus was an Essene, which he might have been, and many Essenes were celibate.

She met Jon Stamos on a plane, and he told her she was pretty.

Therefore "technically" your headline is misleading clickbait.

In the world of the books and show, the non-white areas are Dorne (Spain and North Africa, inhabitants described as white to olive skinned) and the Summer Isles (Black people). The free cities are definitely ethnically distinct from Westeros, but descriptions of the natives vary.

Whenever she has Christian Siriano design a dress for her, she looks phenomenal. And I've seen her styled for magazines and such where her boobs are under control and her natural charisma shines through. It's doable, but you're right, it's not as easy as it would be if she were thin.

Taena is from Myr. The Free Cities are based on medieval and renaissance Italian city-states. Native Italians span a wide range of skin tone and coloring. Her description in the book is given simply as beautiful and seductive, with black hair and eyes. She could be played by a beautiful woman of any color.

I listened to her on a podcast once, and she's so warm and charming and clearly devoted to her art. The host was a woman, and they barely talked about her appearance other than their mutual past as goths (!!!). It was so refreshing to see her in an interview that wasn't devoted 90% to "I want to have sex with you".